Coffee

did u use a #gooseneck to fill the aeropress tho?

hooked on cof medicine

A coworker was intrigued by the French press I use in the office (I’m not remotely a coffee snob but our office coffee is really bad) so he picked one up when he was at Ikea last weekend. He wasn’t completely satisfied with the results from it so we were talking technique but it was a very confusing conversation; it was like we were talking about two completely different methods of brewing coffee. Finally he was like ok show me step by step how you make a cup of coffee. I pull out the French press, pull out the plunger, and as I’m demonstrating I can see I’m blowing his mind.

It turns out he was pouring hot water into an empty pot, putting the plunger in a couple of inches, piling coffee grounds on top of the plunger, and lowering it into the water, removing it when he was ready to pour.

“Didn’t the coffee grounds make a big mess when you took the plunger out?” I asked? “A little bit,” he said. “It’s not too bad if you’re careful.”

i'm at the coffee shop milk and pull on irving avenue procrastinating, if someone is in the area can you come by and yell at me to get to work

loooool xp

lmao

nice

tbf probably some coffee shop is going to be using a french press that way and claiming they invented it sometime by 2020

lol @ reverse French Press method. Is this guy one of those millennials I've been reading with who can't even deal with cereal because there's too much cleanup or whatever?

needs to be the next Gawker video series - "x learns how to make coffee/open a pickle jar/spread peanut butter"

that story

irl lols

I had a "coffee" from Tim Horton's.

Oh no don't do that, shit is horrific

heard people were talking about the cof

No fee

Tim Horton's coffee is the worst. Emergency-only nighttime-driving coffee.
I don't understand how people purposely make it a part of their morning routine. my bf worked at one on the east coast when he was a teen and the drive thru was lined up to the street every morning.

That French press story on the other hand is excellent.

Though: double-chocolate Tim Hortons doughnut 4ever

I would sooner drink a cup of upside down french press coffee than a cup of timmy ho's signature cigarette-butt-kombucha that they call coffee

xp but yes 2 that & also the cruller

I wish the company behind Nespresso wasn't evil, I'd like an espresso pod machine in my office for afternoon caffeine injections.

They're great get one.

just get an aeropress

Doesn't give you that lovely kick of evil in every sip

I don't really like Aeropress coffee, it's too much like a regular cup of coffee. I pretty much just drink double espressos or cold brew concentrate without watering it down.

The other problem with Nespresso in the US is that you have to mail order capsules (unless you have a Nespresso shop nearby, the closest to me is ~45 minutes), so if you run out without replenishing you're just SOL.

ya but even when you make it acc to the official directions (like only a few tablespoons of water per scoop of coffee)?

Pretty sure I never tried anything but their basic directions and it was still too 'cup of coffee'-like for me.

At home I have a Crossland CC1 machine that's pretty good but fiddlier than I like and occasionally get wonky with the electronics (forgets settings, etc.), thinking of selling it and getting a lever machine.

ya, timmy's coffee is disgusting

their chili is pretty good, though. and you can't go wrong with timbits

Some people are putting in coffee bars at comic shops, which is interesting but I'm extremely slow at making espresso for myself at home, can't imagine trying to do it for real or training others.

lolol one of those just opened near my coworker and he says it suuuuuucks, like decent comics but the coffee is a total afterthought

like in 2016 why the fing f wd you make ANY sort of cof shop, hybrid or otherwise, and not strive for great cof? There is no room for so so cof anymore.

i wonder by % how many timbits sold are being brought to offices by people trying to bribe and/or apologize

i moved to Canada on the 4th of July. a year later on Canada Day I had yet to visit a Tim Horton's so I went and got a double double and a box of timbits and had them at home listening to the tragically hip

then you went outside and saw the constellations reveal themselves one star at a time?

sick trag hip ref will m *HIGH FIVES SELF*

I did listen to bobcaygeon yes

i moved to Canada on the 4th of July. a year later on Canada Day I had yet to visit a Tim Horton's so I went and got a double double and a box of timbits and had them at home listening to the tragically hip

― Cornelius Pardew (jim in glasgow), Friday, February 26, 2016 8:19 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i literally lol'd at work here

coulda been the willie nelson...coulda been the wine

didn't have any of that good cof today :(

i bought a bunch of lil canned cofs to drink before i work out, cof life

wait the coffee/comics thing is supposed to be new? we had one of those over a decade ago, then they relocated and lost the coffee business, and have already relocated a second time and have both again. and some sort of cronut-like thing.

what is the best canned cof, are you buying illy or something

ya i bought the illy idk whats the best it tastes fine if a lil sweet i dont usually take sugar just wanted something to get some quick caffeine cldve gone w an energy drink or diet coke i guess but i thought hey why not some cof

they're great for awhile until you realise that all the capsules taste the same, no matter what color they are, and you're stuck with that flavor forever. plus the evilness and waste obv.

er that's a big ol' xpost

tbh i'm already looking forward to tomorrow's cof, wake up, grind a bit, have some cof, look out the back porch

have some cof, look out the back porch

that's living, tbh

doesnt get any better folks

yes, and to do so in the evening with a beer

(ime)

ah the morning and evening drugs the perfect balance the yin and the yang

The afternoon bowel movement

i just looked at the stars while drinking that good beer, all wearing a bath robe my friends' three year old gave me for xmas (the secret is that they gave it to me but its cool he can get the credit)